We are back from our trip and planning next weeks videos…but had a bit of a home heating issue in the way of a small explosion. But, we’ll bring you FlipHD videos next week and introduce some new spirits.

At its 80 Proof, the product is a serious liqueur. This isn’t one of those cheap knock off 17% or 23% gimmicks, this is a rock solid 40% alcohol by volume which you’ll see in many distilled spirits like vodka, gin and rum. To me, that means less sugar substitutes and more actual product but that may also translate into taste, right?

We’re going behind the scenes of Common Man Cocktails and AlcoholsByVolume to produce a video all about Ron Abuelo Añejo Rum, a blended rum from Panama. Having never tried it before, this is our first impressions of the spirit.

We just received our new camcorder this morning, the Sony HXR NX70U. We’re upgrading to fix some HD Video issues and for some of the new technology (flash storage, etc.) that comes with the camera. Also, an update on our recipe website.

I’m soloing a little project to build a home for great cocktail recipes, for the masses to easily search and find recipes that fit the ingredients they own and allow them to expand from their library of cocktails to new and greater things. The initial prototype is underway, but I’ve got a lot more great ideas to implement.

Here is a little demo test with the flip HD that we bought to do some off-set video’s (going to use it this weekend at PAX East and later in the year at Tales of the Cocktail). Pretty neat. Here, I show a bit of the set, the alcohol, etc.

I bought a Micro Flip HD (8GB) and I needed a good way to test it, so I went on set and tapped a little behind the scenes action on what we use to record Common Man Cocktails, Alcohols by Volume and our audio shows. Hopefully this is a good but not to “shaky” tour of the set. The Flip handles things pretty well, albiet a bit shaky when walking or moving.